Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson is considered by many to be one of the greatest American poets of her time. Throughout her career of writing, she produced about 1800 poems and thousands of letters that border on poetry in and of themselves (Kirkby 10). However, Emily Dickinson lived a very private...

Carl Sandburg Carl Sandburg was Pulitzer Prize winning poet, biographer to Abraham Lincoln, novelist, journalist, children's author, and collector of American folk songs. He grew up in the fields of Illinois, traveled from Kansas to Puerto Rico, campaigned for the socialist party, and was ...

Shakespeare\'s love sonnets describe three different contexts in which love operates, as such, he depicts a multi-faceted picture of love. Love in Shakespeare\'s poems does not have a single definition, but rather, an intangible conglomeration of characteristics that, together, make up an ever power...

The event when the Titanic sank was devastating. It has been known as a major accident/disaster. Thomas Hardy's poem called "The Convergence of the Twain" about the Titanic was very detailed and well written in the ship's and iceberg's point of view (personification). He describes it this way beca...

The poem "Serpentine" is about the paths of both a black snake and a man, the poet. The man is experiencing the snake's final moment, and in this "dilated second" he reflects on how this moment came to pass. The poems speaks of the inevitability and predestination of death...

Most of analysis/interpretation of poem, including intro and start of 2nd body paragraph and conclusion: Authors of all types of literature, including stories, biographies, autobiographies, and poems, often incorporate a variety of literary devices into their works in order to express certain feeli...

Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts, to Emily Narcross Dickinson and Edward Dickinson. The poet was the second of three children, being a year younger than her brother, William Austin, and two years older than her sister, Lavinia. ...

In the late 1500\'s, male authors were constantly writing sonnets to keep up with the famous craze going throughout the hearts of the audience. One of the legendary sonnet creators in the history of English writing is William Shakespeare. His writing had its own style and individuality that kept the...

Sometimes authors were so famous that we know almost too much about them. Nobody can ever not find enough information writers like Shakespeare and Chaucer. Then there are others that there is almost nothing about them. However, historians have managed to find a happy medium for Robert Her...

GINSBERG AND ELIOT. Allen Ginsberg. T.S. Eliot. These two men couldn't be more perfect examples of twentieth century poetry. Their poetry differs due to the transition from the first half of the twentieth century, exemplified by T.S. Eliot, to the second half portrayed by Allen Ginsberg. Both...

John Clare was born in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, England, in 1793. He was the son of an agricultural laborer, and he was a hedge setter, day laborer, and gardener at Burghley House from 1810 to 1811. He had no schooling so instead, he studied James Thompson\'s \"Seasons\" and began...

'The Intentional Fallacy', written by Wimsatt and Beardsley, suggests that a critic commits the aforementioned fallacy when they concern themselves with the authorial intention of a poet in writing a piece of work. The intentional fallacy, they say, is:A confusion between the poem and its origins . ...

Robert Frost once said, "Poetry is that which is lost in translation." I am inclined to agree with that statement. The ancient Greek poet Sappho instilled many strong emotions into her poetry. She carefully crafted her writing so it flowed from one verse to another. However, while trying m...

Theme for English B "Theme for English B" by Langston Hughes, is a poem about an assignment given to a student by his teacher to write a one-page paper about himself that captures who he is. The student then responds to this assignment by giving a brief biography, such as where he lives a...

Samantha Erck Research Paper Wallace Stevens: Inside the Gray Flannel Suit Rationalists, wearing square hets, Think, in square rooms, Looking at the floor, Looking at the ceiling, They confine themselves To right-angled triangles. If they tried rhomboids, Cones, ...

"To His Coy Mistress" is a dramatic monologue, in which the speaker addressed to his lady. In this poem, there are argument and counter-argument, as well as a conclusion. The poem is also different from conventional courtly love poetry, because in the first two stanzas,the speaker use...

In preparation for this paper I read over many different types and genres of texts, trying endlessly to find a text that I did not understand, but also one that intrigued me. Nothing that I read caught my attention and grabbed me from the first line. That is until I came to Edgar Allen Poe. Thi...

John Keats was an English poet and letter writer. Keats was born in London on Oct. 31, 1795. Keats was the first of five children. In 1803, at the age of eight, Keats was sent to the Clarke Academy in Enfield, just north of London. At Enfield, Keats met his first literary mentor and loyal friend, ...

William Wordsworth Throughout the Romantic Period there were many excellent poets, but one is called thegreatest. William Wordsworth was born in 1770 in the town of Cockermouth, England. Wordsworth was different than most children in the sense that he loved poetry. ...

Poetry EssayIn "Dulce et Decorum Est," Wilfred Owen uses a range of literary devices to give the reader a highly realistic portrait of the true horror of war. While the most important part of Owen's poem is the structure, since the poems organization is critical to a clear understanding of the poet'...

The depth of William Wordsworth's 'Surprized by joy - impatient as the wind' can hopefully be at least partially unraveled through some background knowledge. Written in 1813-4, it is likely written for his daughter Catherine who died in June 1813. Just as Wordsworth began to come to terms with her...

Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson is known as one of the greatest poets of all time, writing 1,775 brief poems in her lifetime! She is famous for her vast sense of style and theme. Author David Porter said, "by mapping the themes in a poet's oeuvre we seek in a standard way to classify and thereby br...

Mending Wall Biography Robert Frost was inspired to write Mending Wall after talking with one of his farming friend Napoleon Guay. He learned from talking with his neighbor that writing in the tones of real life is an important factor in his poetic form (Liu,Tam). Henry David Thoreau o...

Mending Wall Biography Robert Frost was inspired to write Mending Wall after talking with one of his farming friend Napoleon Guay. He learned from talking with his neighbor that writing in the tones of real life is an important factor in his poetic form (Liu,Tam). Henry David Thoreau once stated tha...

ROAD NOT TAKENEnglish 113B26 September 1999Choices are never easy- men face multitudes of them in their lifetime. Some decisions to these choices are clear while others are sometimes more difficult to effectuate. The poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost is a first person narrative tale of a mon...